With a focus on contemporary embroidery, Maxine Sutton combines screen -printing, appliqué, hand and machine embroidery, and needle-punch techniques.
A personal narrative of abstracted forms and figurative images is continuously developing and draws on a variety of sources, such as; anatomy, nature, folklore, the domestic and the everyday.
Recent work concentrates on printed and embroidered pictures and panels, worked on found fabrics and linens.
Semi-figurative still-lives and landscapes suggest narrative possibilities, and reference either domestic interior objects and spaces, or exterior environments. Organic tree and plant forms, spoons, vessels, tears, eggs and cell like shapes are combined with floral botanical stitching and densely embroidered elements.
HOW TO BUY
Please telephone/email for details and prices of available works. Also see any exhibition and gallery/stockists listed.
NEWS AND EXHIBITIONS
Maxine has been selected for a Reflect Forward award by the Clerkenwell Green Association. The award aims to encourage innovative new work and a key component is the placement of each selected maker at a London museum where objects from the collections will serve as inspiration for their new body of work.
Maxine will be looking at objects from the archives of the Geffrye Museum and her research will lead to an exhibition of new work at Clerkenwell Green Association, London EC1 in May 2008.
Visit www.cga.org.uk for further information on Reflect Forward and forthcoming exhibitions.